DAILY NEWSLETTER: Oklahoma Christian University’s firing of longtime professor sparks controversy

Published: Mon, 03/28/22

3/28/22

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IN THE NEWS

Parents, alumni and students make a plea for academic freedom at Grove City College

Natalie Kahler graduated from Grove City College in 1994. It's where she met and later married her husband, Jason — during a ceremony in the campus chapel — and where their daughter enrolled years later....

Family claims Ukrainian American pastor abducted by Russian forces

The family of a Ukrainian American pastor says Russian armed forces abducted the man on Saturday and that they have not heard from him since. The pastor of the Word of Life Church in Melitopol, Ukraine, 50-year-old Dmitry Bodyu, was taken from his home by roughly eight or 10 troops...

Oklahoma Christian University’s firing of longtime professor sparks controversy

On March 7, Oklahoma Christian University fired Michael O’Keefe, a tenured graphic design professor who taught at the university for 41 years. O’Keefe and his attorney, Kevin Jacobs, a former Oklahoma Christian president, claim the firing was the result of the longtime professor including an openly gay guest speaker in his senior-level “Business of Branding” course....

Why is Russia’s church backing Putin’s war? Church-state history gives a clue

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has defended Russia’s actions and blamed the conflict on the West. Patriarch Kirill’s support for the invasion of a country where millions of people belong to his own church has led critics to conclude that Orthodox leadership has become little more than an arm of the state...

At Jackson hearings, ‘What is your faith?’ becomes a gotcha question

On the first day of real questioning at this week’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Sen. Lindsey Graham asked the nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, “On a scale of 1 to 10, how faithful would you say you are?”...

FROM FAITH ON VIEW

Christian group seeks to ‘green’ Israel

A Christian group has the goal of planting 5,000 trees in Israel by the end of the year and has long-term plans to use future sabbatical years to plant up to 20,000 trees — including in some areas that may prove controversial....

Hillsdale College positioning itself to rewrite American education

A small, Christian college in southern Michigan has become a quiet but influential player in a national debate over public schools. Hillsdale College — a 177-year old institute founded by Free Will Baptists, boasting approximately 1,500 undergraduates — built its education model around an explicitly conservative and Christian reading of American history....

Tennessee residents protest against appeal to remove historic crosses

Locals in Elizabethton, Tenn., are objecting to The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s demand to remove three crosses located at the top of Lynn Mountain....

Philippine priests go pink against authoritarianism

Some Catholic priests in the Philippines are abandoning political neutrality in a presidential race that could see the son of the country’s former dictator elected. The way they are doing so is by wearing pink, the color of candidate Leni Robredo....

COMMENTARY

How can we help people who have strayed from the church feel at home again?

Call it an irony of history or a lesson to learn, but the greatest monarchs in English history have been women: Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria and now Queen Elizabeth II. The first two presided over periods of tremendous expansion; the third, a great contraction....

We’re a people of the Prodigal Son, defined by our mercy

As the Church makes her way through Lent, she draws from the Sacred Scriptures and reminds us of what it means to follow the way of the Lord Jesus. We are called to die to ourselves and live for him....

Why a Belief Crisis Need Never be Fatal to Faith

No scholar would be taken seriously by considering only evidence that lined up with a preferred position. But that’s precisely what so many do in claiming historical and scientific evidence is damning to revealed faith....

Theological Liberalism and United Methodist Decline

When the UMC came into existence in 1968, with the Methodist Church merging with the Evangelical United Brethren church, we had a total of at least 10.7 million members. Today we have less than 6.9 million members, a loss of 3.8 million members. What has happened to us?...

Cultural Collapse and Encroaching Totalitarianism

The absence of a theological and moral basis for life in early twenty-first century society has become a severe problem. It was discussed in presentations at the recent L’Abri Fellowship conference and reviewed in recent articles...

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